Tsipras addressed his ministers: “We face the obligation to quickly implement what has been agreed”. The Syriza government is in coalition with the the small right-wing populist party, the Independent Greeks, which hold 10 seats.
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“This mandate is translated into one word; work”, Tsipras said on Friday.
The U-turn split Tsipras’ ruling Syriza party and forced him to step down, but he comfortably won re-election on Sunday with a pledge to mitigate the impact of the bailout. “I chose you as ministers to govern and to solve peoples’ problems, not to staff TV morning shows”.
Tsipras said implementing “without delay” the country’s bailout agreement in order to “speedily conclude” the first review of Greece’s progress by bailout inspectors.
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Other priorities, he said, included a recapitalisation of Greece’s banks, which, “if done correctly, can give our economy badly needed liquidity”.
They have been hobbled by deposit flight earlier this year and a mountain of nonperforming loans, a outcome of a crippling six-year economic recession.
Generally sympathetic to the plight of migrants, Greece has highlighted discord among its European Union partners on how best to deal with Europe’s worst humanitarian crises in decades.
Stanios Avdelides, a 29-year-old Athenian teacher waving a Syriza flag at the rally, said he was giving Tsipras a “second chance” after he accepted intensified austerity measures.
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